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Menu for Late-Season Tomato Dinners 2011

The second of two dinners to celebrate the range of the 2011 tomato season. This is Oliveto’s 22nd annual Tomato Dinner. Tuesday, Sept. 13 – Friday, Sept. 16…

Market Report #8: Tomato Speculation With Bill Fujimoto

We hit up the Derby Street Market last Tuesday with our favorite produce guy, Bill Fujimoto.

We checked in with Full Belly, Lucero, and…

Tomato Dinners 2010 Menu

September 15 – September 18

Smaller items–salads, soup, antipasti
Best-of-season heirloom tomato tasting
Smoked sea scallops and king salmon with Black Pineapple tomato mousse
Crudo of local halibut, Evergreen and Cherokee Chocolate tomatoes,
candied bacon, and Espelette pepper maionese
Oliveto wild boar prosciutto with Pineapple and Momotaro tomatoes,
wild arugula, and Parmesan
Dry-farmed Early Girl and Persimmon tomatoes with burrata, sea salt,
and [...]

Market Report #12 – Tomatoes?

We got some solid information from Bill about this year’s weird weather and how it has effected tomato crops in northern California.

In the hopes of things heating up in time for a late-late summer ripening, we’ve pushed back the dates for the 2010 Tomato Dinners to…

Reports From Our Farmers – Spring 2010

One of the wettest on record, the spring of 2010 has created some unique challenges for many of our farmers. We already know that the height of tomato season is estimated to hit later than usual & so we’ve pushed back our Annual Tomato Dinners to…

Menu for Tomato Dinners 2009

Featuring tomatoes from: Riverdog, Dirty Girl, Catalan, Terra Firma, Full Belly, Lucero, Animalitos, Brookside, Kendall Jackson, Comanche Creek, and Hungry Hollow farms*….

Tomato Tasting

For the kitchen, the first step in planning the menu for Tomato Dinners is knowing what they have to work with. Yesterday, Chef Canales and his sous chefs sat down for three hours and tasted fifty-five different tomatoes from seven different farms. Each tomato was assessed using the following criteria: color, acid, sugar, gel, other flavors, texture,…